Daily Archives: October 1, 2017

They were early. Again! That’s been the case for the past two or three years. Time was when we didn’t see them here until late October. Now they show up in late September. Another indicator, perhaps, that this part of the planet is still warming. They’re pretty ragged little blooms and their time is short. An opening act for the Camellias that come on the scene in November, or is that now late October? I forget. It’s the Sasanqua that have my attention. I see them as a sort of signpost that Autumn is around the corner. And sure enough, after the first bloom premiered last week in 80 degree heat, our first real cold front moved through dropping the temperature into the 50’s overnight and daytime highs in the upper 60’s. And shooing Hurricane Maria off into the Atlantic. So all hail the Sasanqua, opening act of Autumn.

I was AWOL last week. Chest pains during the night. The wife packed me off to the ER. EKG’s, X Rays, blood tests galore. The diagnosis. No Heart Attack. Arthritis! in the rib cage at the breast bone. Who knew one could have arthritis in the chest? So a false alarm and I was shuttled back into the world of the well. Thanks for the look. See you next time.